IRAN STILL BOILING - AT 4:29 P.M. ET:  Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi alerts us to another superb column by Michael Ledeen, who gets it right on Iran.  Note this quote:

Meanwhile, the American Government was sending conflicting signals to Tehran. On the one hand, it seems that Obama will be going to the upcoming G8 conference with a request that there be no new sanctions on Iran. This comes at a time when the Europeans, for the first time, seem inclined to get at least a little bit tougher on the mullahs, and it effectively demolishes the myth that this administration intends to do anything to support the Iranian people in their life and death struggle for freedom (perhaps this should not surprise us; after all, Obama’s 4th of July message did not contain the word “freedom,” but it did talk a lot about his own legislative proposals). At the same time, Vice President Joe Biden three times said the United States would do nothing to prevent an Israeli attack against Iranian nuclear targets.

So apparently we’re prepared to let the Israelis do our dirty work. A real standup sort of policy.

COMMENT:  The president's poll numbers are dropping - see our posts below at 10:15 a.m. and 3:10 p.m.  The Obama foreign policy is being scrutinized more and more, if only by bloggers and the few journalists trying to work around the mainstream media.  The honeymoon is fading.

July 7, 2009